"It also supplied her with an unexpected inspiration. She often tuned into the ever-popular telenovelasthat entranced Mexican viewers much as their American counterpart soap operas do here. The shows' colorful, over-the-top melodramas seized her imagination, opening up creative space for a wilder, more theatrical expression. That infatuation, along with her earlier punk and electronica influences and affection for the traditional folk sounds she was hearing in Mexico - cumbia, bolero, and now especially ranchera - propelled San Cha in a new artistic direction."
"That opera, will have its West Coast premiere Sept. 5 and 6 at PICA's annual Time Based Art Festival, a whirlwind of contemporary dance, poetry, performance art, and more that runs Sept. 4-14 in four venues around Portland: PICA's home on Northeast Hancock Street, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Reed College, and downtown's Dolores Winningstad Theatre. Co-presented by Portland's Boom Arts and playing twice at the Winningstad Theatre,"
San Cha, a San Jose native and noted San Francisco live musician, reached a breaking point near age 30 and moved in 2015 to her grandmother's farm in Jalisco, Mexico. The rural reset provided time and emotional space to create original music and fostered an infatuation with telenovelas. That melodramatic inspiration fused with punk, electronica and traditional Mexican folk styles such as cumbia, bolero and ranchera, shaping a new artistic direction that produced a 2019 album and a new experimental folk opera. The opera Inebria Me was co-commissioned by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and will premiere at PICA's Time Based Art Festival, co-presented by Boom Arts.
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